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Liberia, South Carolina an African American Appalachian community

Title
Liberia, South Carolina [electronic resource] : an African American Appalachian community / John M. Coggeshall.
Author
Coggeshall, John M.
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description
1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Summary
"In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time"--
Uniform Title
Liberia, South Carolina (Online)
Alternative Title
Liberia, South Carolina (Online)
Subject
  • Clarke, Mable Owens
  • Clark family
  • African Americans > South Carolina > Liberia > History
  • Appalachians (People) > South Carolina > Liberia
  • Appalachian Region, Southern > Race relations
  • Liberia (S.C.) > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
LCCN
2017044368
OCLC
ssj0001975860
Author
Coggeshall, John M.
Title
Liberia, South Carolina [electronic resource] : an African American Appalachian community / John M. Coggeshall.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index.
Access
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